One after the other, Padres manager Bud Black went through a litany of descriptions. Each dramatic assessment indeed was befitting of a single and singular plate appearance — an eight-pitch walk of Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton by relief pitcher Andrew Cashner, seven of those pitches zooming in at 101 mph and the other recorded at 102 — though the rare drama resulted in no more than another Padres loss. Not so rare, those.

Still the only National League club that’s yet to win 10 games, the Padres were swept for the second time this season, losing 6-3 to the Miami Marlins on Sunday in a game that turned on an epic matchup in a four-run eighth inning by the visitors. The walk came with the bases-loaded, breaking a 2-2 tie and setting up a series of more Padres defensive miscues, but what played out between the Cashner and Stanton pretty much transcended almost anything that’s happened at a downtown ballpark that’s been in desperate need of spectacle this season.

“I was one pitch away from getting out of it and couldn’t make the pitch, but I was going at him with my best stuff,” said Cashner. “He’s one of the best young guys in the game, and if I’m gonna get beat, I’m gonna get beat with my fastball.”

It’s a fastball faster than anybody’s ever thrown while wearing a Padres uniform. Obtained in the Anthony Rizzo trade and now deemed a candidate for the closer role that’s been vacated by Huston Street’s assignment to the disabled list, Cashner hits triple digits without even appearing to try that hard, and he clearly was doing everything he could to strike out Stanton with two outs in a 2-2 game. Everything except anything under triple digits.

“He kept throwing his fastball — and I wasn’t catching up to it, either — so I knew he wasn’t going to slow down with the off-speed pitch,” said Stanton. “He was gonna keep challenging me. When you’re into something like that with a pitcher like that — a huge situation, game at stake — you’re just in the zone.”

Cashner was in the strike zone enough to work a 2-2 count on four four-seamers clocked at 101. Stanton fouled off a 102-mph delivery, a tick that veteran catcher John Baker nearly caught for the out. The sense of drama grew palpable with another ball and another foul and two more speed-gun reports of the scoreboard, but while Black said it looked to him like Cashner had tried to get even more cheese on the last pitch, the pitcher said he simply failed to “stay tall and got underneath the baseball.”

Ball four. Way high.

“That was cool, the whole thing,” said Stanton. “I’ve seen (Cashner) in person too many times. We came up at the same time in the minors, but back then, he was a starter (in the Cubs organization) and only throwing 93, 95, not 102. It’s something to think back to facing each other somewhere in the middle of Tennessee, in front of a hundred fans, then to face each other again in a game like this in a place like this.”